Geeshie Wiley
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Geeshie Wiley (sometimes rendered as Geechie Wiley) was an obscure female United States blues singer and guitar player. She recorded three disc records in the early 1930s; almost nothing else is known about her.
The nickname "Geechie" or "Geechee" was most commonly given to people from around the coastal South Carolina and Georgia.
Ishman Bracey (whose testimony may or may not be accurate), said that Wiley was from Natchez, Mississippi or nearby, and at one time or another was romantically linked to Papa Charlie McCoy. She is rumored to have worked in a medicine show in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1920s. Wiley may have been married to Casey Bill Weldon for a time, following his divorce from Memphis Minnie.
Wiley recorded "Last Kind Word Blues" and "Skinny Leg Blues" in Grafton, Wisconsin for Paramount Records in March of 1930, with Elvie Thomas backing her up on second guitar. (Thomas also recorded two songs for Paramount at the session, "Motherless Child Blues" and "Over to My House," someone, presumably Wiley, provided second guitar and vocal harmonies.) In 1931 Wiley and Thomas returned to Grafton to record two more sides for Paramount, "Pick Poor Robin Clean" and "Eagles on a Half".
Documentation of Wiley's later life and career (and indeed her legal name, as "Geeshie" is likely a nickname) is apparently entirely lacking.
Three of Geeshie's songs are available for download at archive.org: [1] (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=Robin), [2] (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=Words), [3] (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=Skinny)